Conceived in crisis : the revolutionary creation of an American state /
This book argues that the American Revolution was a response to the inability of individual colonial governments to deliver basic services, thus undermining their legitimacy, as much as the product of the imperial crisis brought on by Parliament's attempt to impose a new idea of empire on the A...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Early American histories.
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| Summary: | This book argues that the American Revolution was a response to the inability of individual colonial governments to deliver basic services, thus undermining their legitimacy, as much as the product of the imperial crisis brought on by Parliament's attempt to impose a new idea of empire on the American colonies. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 307 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813944548 0813944546 |